1. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow. “Have you any commissions for Egypt? I am just starting.”
i. Who are the speaker and the person spoken to?
ii. Why was the speaker 'starting for Egypt'?
iii. Was the speaker able to carry on with his journey?

1point for this topic sentence, what would not be a good concluding sentence for the paragraph? topic sentence: the u.s. government's resistance to put polar bears on the list of endangered species has allowed for the continued decrease of the already threatened population. o a. any more delay will surely result in the continued loss of polar bear populations. o b. i saw a polar bear in a zoo, and it looked sad to not be in the wild o c. without swift action, polar bears may soon be extinct in the wild. o d. any of these would be a good concluding sentence,